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Offline jamaldog87

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Music of war
« on: April 15, 2011, 10:43:14 AM »
I have seen a lot of Vietnam movies and some gulf war movies and it seem like someone is always playing some music over the radios or with a boom box. So is it true that solider played music when in combot over the radios?
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Re: Music of war
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2011, 05:41:11 AM »
No...  ::)
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Re: Music of war
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2011, 01:24:33 PM »
so there is no playing of music in the combat zone? It seem like anything about the Vietnam War   there is Creedence Clearwater Revival- Fortunate Son playing with it.
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Re: Music of war
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2011, 04:18:22 PM »
or "Paint it Black" by the Stones?
or "Flight of the Valkries" by Wagner?

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Re: Music of war
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2011, 04:07:46 PM »
In a combat situation would it really make sense to do something like play loud music and draw attention to yourself and others.
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Re: Music of war
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2011, 04:36:40 PM »
The point is that the generations that followed only saw the Vietnam War set to rock music.
Footage of WWII never seemed to be set to music.
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Re: Music of war
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2011, 10:38:48 AM »
Ah I get ya. When I was on the road working as production manger for Savoy Brown I had a Vietnam Vet tell me after a show that his helicopter crew would blast Hell bound Train when they were coming in on missions.
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Re: Music of war
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2011, 05:47:59 AM »
 
 
 L O U D  music from a chopper was physic warfare. Scared the crap out of the Vietnamese and pumped up the troops.
             
Wagner's music was excellent for that.
 
Music in the foxholes would not be a good idea ;)  neither smoking some weeds.
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Re: Music of war
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2011, 12:27:50 PM »
Hey, don't forget the Animals " We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" Music has long been used for it's psychological effects on the enemy. The Mexicans played the Deguello at the Alamo.
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Re: Music of war
« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2011, 12:44:13 PM »
Yep, marching around city wall, pounding drums or cymbals (I think) and blowing on rams horns made the walls collapse.( snicker, snicker)
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Re: Music of war
« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2011, 02:59:46 PM »
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L O U D  music from a chopper was physic warfare. Scared the crap out of the Vietnamese and pumped up the troops.

Does anyone really believe that they had stereo equipment loud enough to even be heard over the engine and rotors of a chopper, let alone be considered "loud" over those same noises?
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Re: Music of war
« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2011, 05:19:38 PM »
Movie sound effects are one thing.
I really does not make sense to have loud music playing, not sure you can hear it over the sounds of battle but it adds another noise and voices that would hinder officers in giving commands and troops understanding those orders could win the battle or save them.
In star wars George Lucas made the fighters have a noise as they fly by.  Space is a vacume and no sound waves exist.  On the same note silent movies went out in the 20's.  But even they had had music.
Hollywood is hollywood and real life is real life and most often they do not meet.
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